On the important issue of discrimination, Clause 9 makes it clear that a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act as a person of the acquired sex or gender. Once recognition has been granted, they will be able to claim the rights appropriate to that gender.
- Lord Filkin, the Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 (18th December)
I could never get smooth scrolling to work on Linux in any mainstream web browser, most people don’t seem to see it, but I’m sensitive to things like that.
Like with a laptop trackpad? I'm smooth-scrolling through these comments right now, and don't remember when scrolling wasn't smooth by default on any trackpad.
It’s smooth to a point, but not smooth like OS X is. It might have improved (I think I last tried desktop Linux a year ago). I do enjoy using Linux as my default headless OS.
I saw a post on LinkedIn, from GitHub, boasting about how many changes they deploy in a day. I couldn’t believe it. GitHub actions have been broken so many times for me this past month, not able to deploy my code when I want to, so it felt like a slap in the face.
I got myself a fancy job at Spotify. It was a dream come true, or so I thought. I couldn’t believe how many meetings I had to be in each day. I couldn’t believe how little autonomy I had or how much time I had to devote to preparing (months in advance) for performance reviews. I also couldn’t get over how many middle managers had a chip on their shoulder about the idea that “technical” work might have equal value to management work at a tech company.
I became a contractor and that’s where I realised the true programmer dream. I just cycle between collecting requirements & analysis and writing code. I spend maybe 2-3 hours in meetings per week, just to aim the cannons, as it were.
I agree. I’m a contractor and I feel the tech list allows the client to know upfront what I know out the gate and what I don’t. They can make an informed decision around who they want to get in for their project.
I find myself acquiring lots of books lately, books I won’t read for at least 6 months. It feels like you can’t investigate topics online anymore without some machine somewhere watching you. If I look something up about my house plants in a reference book, sure it might take longer, but there’s something quite liberating about knowing I’m not being watched by some Ferengi-esque bot that wants my money. Same applies to fiction, maybe I want to be able to read or reference Moby Dick in peace.
I found the first solution easier to understand, but I have this infuriating (even to myself) obsession with ternary operators that could introducing some bias.
I like them when the actually fit one one line. If I have to scroll horizontally I will roll my eyes. And I really hate nested ternaries.
One of my pet hates is when the c# style is for opening braces on a new line, making if/then/else statements much longer than they need to be, so people try to cram as much into a single ternary as possible.
My biggest beef with the former solution is that resultsEntries is unnecessarily stored in a variable, and between its declaration and use there is an interspersed declaration of a general utility function. I might have inlined that one as well. This is what harms readability the most. Code should be arranged general-to-specific, and this example violates that.
Although given that there are only two properties to process, the gopher-style assignment code preferred by the author would suffice anyway.
- Lord Filkin, the Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 (18th December)